SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION TO PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Socio-Psychological Adaptation of Migrant and Russian School Children to Polycultural Educational Environment of Modern Schools

The article deals with the issues connected with the peculiarities of socio-psychological adaptation of migrant and Russian school children of different age groups to the polycultural educational environment of schools in Russia. The study was conducted in a number of schools in Krasnoyarsk and Sosnovoborsk in Krasnoyarsk region( Siberia), Russia, and comprised 200 school children. The research...

Psychological Adaptation To Heat Stress

By Ralph A. Vernacchia, Ph.D., and Sylvia Veit-Hartley, B.A. Center for Performance Enhancement, Western Washington University This excellent work by Vernacchia and Veit-Hartley was presented at the Coaching Education Level III in December, 1998. It not only shows the quality of the authors’ research and writing, but also the what one might fi nd at a Level III seminar. Both authors are to be c...

Socio-psychological simulation

Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help: Factor Structure and Socio-Demographic Predictors

Attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help (ATSPPH) are complex. Help seeking preferences are influenced by various attitudinal and socio-demographic factors and can often result in unmet needs, treatment gaps, and delays in help-seeking. The aims of the current study were to explore the factor structure of the ATSPPH short form (-SF) scale and determine whether any significant so...

Psychological profiles of professional actors

The personality profiles and cognitive styles of 191 professional actors were compared to general population samples. Actors of both sexes were significantly higher than comparison groups in extraversion, openness to experience, and agreeableness. There was a trend towards higher neuroticism. The actors also scored significantly more highly than comparison groups on Baron-Cohen s empathizing qu...